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Congo style : from Belgian art nouveau to African independence
- Title
- Congo style : from Belgian art nouveau to African independence / Ruth Sacks.
- Author
- Sacks, Ruth, 1977-
- Publication
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2023.
- ©2023
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- Additional Authors
- Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
- Description
- xv, 232 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Congo Style presents a postcolonial approach to discussing the visual culture of two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II's Congo Colony and the state sites of Mobutu Sese Seko's totalitarian Zaïre. Readers are brought into the living remains of sites once made up of ambitious modernist architecture and art in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. From the total artworks of Art Nouveau to the aggrandizing sites of post-independence Kinshasa, Congo Style investigates the experiential qualities of man-made environments intended to entertain, delight, seduce and impress. In her study of visual culture, Ruth Sacks sets out to reinstate the compelling wonder of nationalist architecture from Kinshasa's post-independence era, such as the Tower of the Exchange (1974), Gécamines Tower (1977), and the artworks and exhibitions that accompanied them. While exploring post-independence nation-building, this book examines how the underlying ideology of Belgian Art Nouveau, a celebrated movement in Belgium, led to the dominating early colonial settler buildings of the ABC Hotels (circa 1908-13). Congo Style combines Sacks's practice as a visual artist and her academic scholarship to provide an original study of early colonial and independence-era modernist sites in their African context.
- Series Statement
- African perspectives
- Uniform Title
- African perspectives (University of Michigan. Press)
- Alternative Title
- From Belgian art nouveau to African independence
- Subject
- Modernism (Aesthetics) > Congo (Democratic Republic) > Kinshasa
- Art and state > Congo (Democratic Republic) > Kinshasa
- Architecture and state > Congo (Democratic Republic) > Kinshasa
- Art and society > Congo (Democratic Republic) > Kinshasa
- Architecture and society > Congo (Democratic Republic) > Kinshasa
- Architecture and society
- Architecture and state
- Art and society
- Art and state
- Buildings
- Modernism (Aesthetics)
- Kinshasa (Congo) > Buildings, structures, etc
- Congo (Democratic Republic) > Kinshasa
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- ReCAP 23-8465
- ISBN
- 9780472076314
- 0472076310
- LCCN
- 2023019471
- OCLC
- 1372547895
- Author
- Sacks, Ruth, 1977- author.
- Title
- Congo style : from Belgian art nouveau to African independence / Ruth Sacks.
- Publisher
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- African perspectivesAfrican perspectives (University of Michigan. Press)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Sacks, Ruth, 1977- Congo style. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2023 9780472903887 (DLC) 2023019472
- Research Call Number
- ReCAP 23-8465